HARDWOOD OR BROAD-LEAF SECTION OF TREES 51 
close of the great war which the country had with 
Russia, began to exploit some of their forest lands. 
Fair-sized shipments of their oak were made to very 
many countries, and gradually their enterprise has 
resulted in the wood gaining a footing in the markets. 
The timber is shipped in every way that can further 
its establishment—in logs, in hewn and sawn timber, 
for railway sleepers, staves for the cooper’s use, 
converted planks and boards, plain and quarter- 
sawn for the cabinet and builders’ trade. The wood 
is of uniform good colour, mild and adapted for good 
work and is, when sent in a manufactured condition, 
well sawn. It is, however, not quartered in so efficient 
a way as the American wood, is not particularly well 
flowered or figured, and on the .whole lacks the 
distinctive character of Russian and Austrian wood. 
